Check out the Dream Defenders, a Black woman led org of Black and Brown youth building power in order to advance a new vision for the state of Florida. Watch their brilliant session at the Socialism 2023 conference last weekend.

WE ARE ABOLITIONISTS

We are fighting for a world without prisons, policing, surveillance and punishment. We know that prisons aren’t about safety or accountability but about control and domination over large segments of the population, especially Black people, in order to make a profit. We are different from prison reformers because reformers often create situations where incarceration becomes even more entrenched in our society. Instead, we are fighting for solutions that will produce decarceration, fewer people behind bars and a future world without prisons.

This is why Dream Defenders will never fight for the conviction of a police officer: prisons are not about safety, accountability, or justice.

In order to get us closer to this vision, we must begin to build community alternatives to dealing with harm and violence. Dream Defenders practices transformative justice, an abolitionist way of dealing with conflict and holding people accountable in opposition to the punitive nature of the prison system that treats people as disposable, locks them up and throws away the key.  

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